The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
WALLS must get the weather-stain
Before they grow the ivy.

Mrs. Browning.
JUDGE MIRACLE is a candidate for the SUI
preme Bench in Iowa, and is said to be very
able and upright judge.
FRANCIS S. SMITH wrote an alleged poem reg
ularly every week for ANEW York paper yet he
recently died natural death.
THE new State Department at Washington
has $50 rooms. and cost 100000. The new
War Department has 173 rooms and cost So, $780,
600. The building has Alp windows.
JACK SPRAlN was appointed postmaster at
Big Springs, H., by President jackson, in 1884
He resigned the other day. and received a check
for $l70 for his fifty three years of service
GENERAL BoULANaER has, at his request, been
furnished by NJ. Ambrose Thomas with the
musical score of sixteen national anthems of
foreign countries. and has directed all the mill
tary bands to practice them.
OMAHA World: Mr.. Wrinks-"Thats queer.
New Jersey bride went sleigh-riding and was
nearly frozen to death" Mrs. Wrinks-"Alone?'
NO. she was with her husband" 30 yes, of
course 1t was after they were married"
NoRRIsTowN Herald: A scientific journal tells
How to Preserve Stove Pipe" We should
think preserved stove pipe would be hollow
mockerv. 1t must require large amount Of
sugar and much boiling to make them palatable
THERE are in round numbers 1900 members
of the Philadelphia bar. About one thousand
are in more or less active practice, though 800.
it is said. do the bulk of the legal business, and
ten of them are enough to gather in the cream
of the practice
a FRENCH physician who holds that grooming
and crying operations by which nature al
lays anguish, tells of a mad who reduced his
pulse from 126 to 60 in the course of few hours
by giving full vent to his emotions. If people are
unhappy about anything. he advises them 20 GO
into their rooms and comfort themselves with a
good cry.
NEWSPAPER men in Germany have to be very
careful about punctuation. The Hofer Tage-
blatt, short time ago, said that decoration
had been conferred upon Count Won Holstein
By oversight, an exclamation point instead of
a period appeared at the end Of the sentence and
| for this the authorities seized the whole ISSUE
and instituted suit against the editor for afro
| cious libel
! Mr.. RUsKIN declares that ''the war expendi-
! ture of all nations is directed-not to their
good or safety, but much-and even infinitely
| to their harm and peril, in paying their iron
mongers for the manufacture of iron-clads and
stink pots, and in lain tanning the younger nc en-
| bers of their governing bodies in the graceful
| amusing and certainly speak as an artist
| decorative and dramatic profession Of arms
| THE breaking, by DEATH Of the partnership Of
Besant and Rice has led many admiring readers
to wonder what part Mr. Rice took in the work
| of the survivor. The authors friends say tina,
| Mr. Besant sat quietly in his study and wrote
the books while NIr. Rice collected material
| bargained with the publishers, criticised the
| MSS. when completed and shared the profits
| 1t was a comfortable arrangement for both men
| GENERAL SHERIDAN has met the enemy ane
| he is hers At the last White House receptio.
he inadvertently trod on Southern woman.
train. Turning to apologize, he was met will
/ the sweetest of smiles, until her companion
| whispered in her ear, THAT is General Sheri
| dam The smile lett her face, the dark eye.
blazed and she exclaimed This is not the frs
time you have tramplef or me. SIR" For tn,
first time on record gallant ''Phil' beat hast.
retreat.
WHEN Mrs. Langtry' was in Philadelphia sh,
told an incident of her London career in which
the poet Of the' Sierras. Joaquin Miller took
prominent part When Mrs. Langtry first ap
peared on the stage, Joaquin Miller wrote
poem in her honor. entitled "The Lily Short
iy after it appeared in print the author ap
preached Mrs. Langtry at large reception, ant